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Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell

"Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A chronic leukemia characterized by abnormal B-lymphocytes and often generalized lymphadenopathy. In patients presenting predominately with blood and bone marrow involvement it is called chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL); in those predominately with enlarged lymph nodes it is called small lymphocytic lymphoma. These terms represent spectrums of the same disease.

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